Riting: Gina Young on Sara Lyons: I’M VERY INTO YOU
In August of 1995, Kathy Acker and McKenzie Wark had a passionate three-day encounter in a hotel room in Sydney. The emails that ensued between them were hot, heady, and fraught with gender play and power dynamics, self-consciousness and intellectual foreplay.
Director Sara Lyons has adapted I’m Very Into You, the book of Kathy and McKenzie’s emails, into a performance project that runs at the LAX Festival from Oct 13-21 at Think Tank Gallery. Part archival and part performative, I’m Very Into You will be performed by a cast of eight local artists, of which I’m lucky to be a part; few of whom have an easily identifiable gender, most of whom identify as many, multi and complexly gendered, and all of whom Sara believes can embody the queer maelstrom that is Kathy and Ken.
In advance of the LAX Festival we asked Riting.org to partner with us in profiling the twelve pieces in the festival.
Sara’s piece, I’M VERY INTO YOU, opens on October 13th, 2018, at Think Tank Gallery in the Los Angeles Exchange [LAX] Festivaland runs till October 21st. Details can be found here.
Riting is an experiment in writing that engages with performance happening now in Los Angeles. Riting is a ground for encounters between artists, their critical community, and the public they belong to. Riting brings together a multiplicity of bodies and a polyphony of voices. Riting supposes there is no definitive untangling. Riting assumes mutuality of investment in the ecology of performance activity in this city.
